Resources

FFSS Reading List:

Grief, Loss, and Trauma:

It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand  – Megan Devine (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3759768&R=3759768)

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM187950&R=187950)

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM148961&R=148961

A Grief Observed - C S Lewis (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2958523&R=2958523

Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM214900&R=214900

Letters of Note, Grief - Shaun Usher (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM4120485&R=4120485

Last Things: A Graphic Memoir About Loss and Love - Marissa Moss (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3617988&R=3617988

Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2935866&R=2935866

Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship - Gail Caldwell (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2612237&R=2612237

A Death in the Family - James Agee (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2457634&R=2457634

Faith, Hope and Carnage - Nick Cave (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM4249649&R=4249649

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel Van der Kolk (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3112496&R=3112496)

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science – Norman Doidge (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM131188&R=131188)

The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity – Norman Doidge (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3189794&R=3189794)

Trauma: Healing your Past to Find Freedom Now - Nick Polizzi (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2612237&R=2612237

Road Violence, Safe Streets and Urbanism:

There are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster – Who Profits and Who Pays the Price – Jesse Singer (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM4184662&R=4184662)

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City – Peter Norton (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2480598&R=2480598)

Unsafe at Any Speed – Ralph Nader (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193420.Unsafe_at_Any_Speed

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution – Janette Sadik-Khan (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3375514&R=3375514)

Forcing the Hand of Justice: Seeking the Truth about My Brother’s Death. My Family’s Fight against a Broken System (The NYPD) - Joel Lefevre (https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000117454354/Joel-Lefevre-Forcing-the-Hand-of-Justice)

Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America – Angie Schmitt (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3958806&R=3958806)

Crash Course: If You Want to get Away with Murder Buy a Car - Woodrow Phoenix (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53856098)

Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving – Peter Norton (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM4182227&R=4182227)

Straphanger: How Subways, Buses and Trains are Saving our Cities from the Empire of the Automobile –Taras Grescoe (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2822825&R=2822825)

Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places – Jeff Speck (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3728449&R=3728449)

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town – Charles Marohn (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM4142372&R=4142372)

Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars – Samuel Schwartz (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3346661&R=3346661)

Urban Street Design Guide – NACTO (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3048025&R=3048025)

The High Cost of Free Parking – Donald Shoup (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM751728&R=751728)

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World – Henry Grabar (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=4380770&Entt=RDM4380770)

Cities for People – Jan Gehl (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2722692&R=2722692)

Happy City: Transforming our Lives Through Urban Design – Charles Montgomery (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2982354&R=2982354)

The Life and Death of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM183865&R=183865)

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It - Daniel Knowles (TPL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM4365669&R=4365669)

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